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Maggot Debridement Therapy in Disaster Medicine

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2015
AbstractBackgroundWhen disaster strikes, the number of patients requiring treatment can be overwhelming. In low-income countries, resources to assist the injured in a timely fashion may be limited. As a consequence, necrosis and wound infection in disaster patients is common and frequently leads to adverse health outcomes such as amputations, chronic ...
Stadler, Frank, Shaban, Ramon Z., Tatham, Peter   +3 more
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Maggot debridement therapy: a systematic review

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2014
Maggot debridement therapy is used extensively in the UK in both community and hospital situations, but remains a potentially under-used modality in many wound care markets. It promotes wound healing by performing three key processes: debridement, disinfection and growth-promoting activity.
Eric, Shi, David, Shofler
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Maggot Debridement Therapy for Laminitis

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, 2010
Maggot debridement therapy is a nontraumatic, minimally invasive method to treat infections in a foot compromised by chronic laminitis. A mechanical strategy must first be in place to address the instability of the distal phalanx and hoof capsule. Adverse reactions to maggot debridement therapy are uncommon and the only side effect observed has been ...
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Pain related to maggot debridement therapy

Journal of Wound Care, 2012
Objective: To summarise our experience with maggot debridement therapy (MDT) in relation to pain observed in patients treated in 16 departments and units of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. Method: A secondary analysis of data from 435 patients.
K Y, Mumcuoglu, E, Davidson, A, Avidan, L, Gilead   +3 more
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Maggot Therapy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2008
George Hangay, Susan V. Gruner, F. W. Howard, John L. Capinera, Eugene J. Gerberg, Susan E. Halbert, John B. Heppner, Peter Neuenschwander, Kurt Redborg, John B. Heppner, Lanna Cheng, Allan T. Showler, Ronald J. Prokopy, JosE Roberto Postali Parra, George Hangay, Boris Kondratieff, Igor Uspensky, John B. Heppner, John B. Heppner, Nikos T. Papadopoulos, Marjorie A. Hoy, Timothy A. Ebert, John L. Capinera, John L. Capinera, M. Patricia Juárez, Jason P. W. Hall, John B. Heppner, Judith H. Willis, John S. Willis, Michael Bidochka, Wendell L. Morrill, B. Merle Shepard, John L. Capinera, Lawrence A. Lacey, Lawrence A. Lacey, James J. Becnel, Gregory S. Paulson, Leellen F. Solter, Meir Broza, Ping Wang, John L. Capinera, George Hangay, Heather J. McAuslane, John B. Heppner, David R. Horton, Chyi-Chen Ho, Lewis B. Coons, Marjorie Rothschild, J. Howard Frank, Norman C. Leppla, Maria Navajas, George Roderick, John B. Heppner, Thomas C. Emmel, Andrei Sourakov, John L. Capinera, John R. Wallace, John R. Wallace, Christopher Tipping, Richard G. Weber, C. Roxanne Rutledge, Ann M. Powers, Aaron C. Brault, Barry R. Miller, John B. Heppner, Barbara Bentz, Severiano F. Gayubo, Murray S. Blum, L. T. Kok, M. D. Soler Cruz, James McIver, Gary Stonedahl, James A. Danoff-Burg, Ron Cherry   +73 more
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Maggot Debridement Therapy for Chronic Wounds

The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 2002
This article presents a general overview of maggot debridement therapy, as used in the management of chronic infected wounds. Much has been written about this treatment method, both historically and in the past decade. Current clinical practice is discussed and clinical and laboratory research are reviewed, with attention to the inherent challenges of
J C T, Church, M, Courtenay
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Progress of maggot therapy

The American Journal of Surgery, 1935
Abstract A survey has been made of the use of sterile blowfly maggots in surgery in the treatment of suppurative infections. The treatment has been given in every State in the United States and in Canada, and 605 surgeons have used the method upon 5750 cases. It has also spread to many other countries.
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Maggot Therapy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1983
E A, Pechter, R A, Sherman
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Wound Care: Maggot Debridement Therapy

2016
Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) has long been used to treat various wounds or ulcers. Although the mechanisms underlying MDT are not completely understood, laboratory studies have clarified the various effects of larval secretions/excretions. The most noticeable change in maggot-treated wounds is debridement.
Taku Maeda, Chu Kimura
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[Maggot therapy in gynecology].

Zentralblatt fur Gynakologie, 2007
Ancient societies recognised beneficial effects of certain fly larvae on wound healing. Nowadays, biosurgery with living maggots has proven very useful in the therapy of infected, necrotic, acute and chronic wounds. The larvae cause a rapid and selective wound debridement, a disinfective effect and rapid formation of granulation tissue and epithelium ...
D, Brüggmann, H-R, Tinneberg, M T, Zygmunt   +2 more
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